Date - 2nd November 2009
Boarded train : Vidyavihar-Dadar-Virar. Reached Vasai in an hours time. Boarded a bus from the nearby Bus stand and within half an hour travel reached the fort area.
No one to ask for directions, no one to disturb, the forts all yours to explore all day. The entire perimeter inside is lined with palms and thick vegetation.
Moved past a facade and reached what used to be an enormous Church and probably a graveyard. Renovation work was going on here at that time. Stone tablets in portugese lay on the floor and many walls still presented the fine textures of its distant past.
The sea was visible from the fort wall linings. The nearby gate opened to what seemed to be a creek. Further away to the opposite side lay another church/graveyard. The arcs had fine linings with many signages of the past. Here the altar was also partly maintained.
The last of the churches had colored stone walls which presented a pleasant look. This one is bigger than the earlier two churches and is located very near to the Chimaji Appa statue. Few ruins were found in this area and just kept beside the walls of the church. It would have been better to have read in detail the history of the place and then gone over! At around 1730 , left for vasai road railway station...
